Marc Rees is one
of Wales’s leading exponents of contemporary performance
and installation. His innovative interdisciplinary artworks
are known for their flamboyant, humorous and often extreme
interpretations of history, culture and personal experience.
In addition to working with some of Britain’s foremost
physical theatre companies (Brith Gof, Earthfall and DV8)
and Germany’s premiere choreographers (Angela Guerreiro,
Thomas Lehmen and Tanz Compagnie Rubato) his own extensive
body of work includes the solo stage works Iddo Ef/Caligula
Disco/Gloria Days, the installation/performances The House
Project /RevolUn/Shed*light and the BBC film A Very Gladys
night.

He has lived and worked in Amsterdam, Montreal and Berlin and
has initiated under his company R.I.P.E (Rees International
Projects Enterprise) several highly successful artistic alliances
with furniture designers, film makers, authors, composers and
choreographers across Europe and North America.

Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, Gijon, Spain,
Feb 28 – March 8, 2009
En Residencia was conceived and curated by Marc
Rees in collaboration with creative partner and
dramaturge Benedict Anderson. En Residencia was
a series of performative and spatial works created
by twenty visual and movement based artists from
Wales and Asturias under the artistic direction
of Rees.
This site-specific installation was the result
of a two-week, on-site laboratory where the participating
group of international artists responded to the
interior and exterior spaces of a semi derelict
area of Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, Gijon, Spain.
The artistic interventions drew their main stimulus
from the unique environments and associated memorabilia;
the archive material; the abandoned artefacts and
the extraordinary history of the location. The
mid-south wing of the Laboral complex remained
un-renovated and many of the spaces (classrooms,
stairwells, offices, antechambers and landings
etc.) were strewn with discarded objects and hundreds
of pieces of furniture found in various configurations,
both ordered and scattered.
These spaces were allocated to the artists by Rees
and Anderson to re-imagine and re-animate in order
to create En Residencia.